A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.

Coming Out of the Ice

1982

English

6.4

♡ 3

83%

based on memoir or autobiography

biography

Biography

Drama

Waris Hussein Director

Clive Merrison as Bikov

Malcolm Storry as Guard Commander 2

Tom Chadbon as Samsonov

John Savage as Victor Herman

A biographical film about Victor Herman, based on the memoir of the same name.

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns

1999

English

7.0

♡ 10

80%

John Henderson Director

Clive Merrison as Chamberlain 2 episodes, 1999

Stephen Moore as Jentee 2 episodes, 1999

Neil Conrich as Pooka Captain 2 episodes, 1999

Whoopi Goldberg as The Grand Banshee 2 episodes, 1999

In a land of myth and magic, a forbidden love affair ignites an ancient war between the leprechauns and the trooping fairies. Jack Woods is appointed to restore harmony...but will peace prevail before the unthinkable happens?

The Sign of Four

1983

English

6.3

♡ 6

Desmond Davis Director

Clive Merrison as Bartholomew Sholto

Terence Rigby as Inspector Layton

Cherie Lunghi as Mary Morstan

Michael O'Hagan as Mordecai Smith

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson try to track down the Great Mogul, the second-largest diamond in the world.

Heavenly Creatures

1994

English

7.2

♡ 58

95%

83%

Action

based on a true story

Peter Jackson Director

Peter Jackson as Bum Outside Theater

Clive Merrison as Dr. Henry Hulme

Kate Winslet as Juliet Hulme

Melanie Lynskey as Pauline Parker

Precocious teenager Juliet moves to New Zealand with her family and soon befriends the quiet, brooding Pauline through their shared love of fantasy and literature. This friendship gradually develops into an intense and obsessive bond.

Caesar

2002

English

6.6

♡ 13

Uli Edel Director

Valeria Golino as Calpurnia 2 episodes, 2004

Clive Merrison as Catullus

Richard Harris as Lucius Cornelius Sulla 2 episodes, 2004

Christopher Walken as Marcus Portius Cato 2 episodes, 2004

Twenty year-old Julius Caesar flees Rome for his life during the reign of Sulla but through skill and ambition rises four decades later to become Rome's supreme dictator.

Henry VIII and His Six Wives

1972

English

6.8

♡ 5

79%

Waris Hussein Director

Charlotte Rampling as Ann Boleyn

Arthur Goodman as Council Member

Robin Sachs as Thomas Culpeper

Clive Merrison as Weston

Adapted from the BBC2 serial The Six Wives of Henry VIII. 1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken a turn for the worse and he is forced to look back over his life and the many loves which had brought him his three children, only one of which was the desired male heir to secure the Tudor dynasty.

The History Boys

2006

English

6.8

♡ 8

66%

Nicholas Hytner Director

Dominic Cooper as Dakin

Stephen Campbell Moore as Irwin

Frances de la Tour as Mrs. Lintott

Clive Merrison as The Headmaster

The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.

The Lady in the Van

2015

English

6.7

♡ 27

89%

64%

Action

based on a true story

based on novel or book

Nicholas Hytner Director

Stephen Campbell Moore as Doctor at Old Peoples Home

Clive Merrison as Man in Confessional

Maggie Smith as Miss Shepherd

June Watson as Woman in Day Centre

The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.

Saving Grace

2000

English

6.9

♡ 9

64%

Nigel Cole Director

Brenda Blethyn as Grace

Diana Quick as Honey

Tchéky Karyo as Jacques

Clive Merrison as Quentin

Unexpectedly widowed, prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself in dire financial straits when she inherits massive debts her late husband had been accruing for years. Faced with losing her house, she decides to use her talent for horticulture and hatches a plan to grow potent marijuana which can be sold at an astronomical price, thus solving her financial crisis.

Firefox

1982

English

5.9

♡ 31

41%

based on novel or book

Clint Eastwood Director

Kenneth Colley as Colonel Kontarsky

Oliver Cotton as Dmitri Priabin

Clive Merrison as Major Lanyev

Clint Eastwood as Mitchell Gant

The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called 'Firefox'. Worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon—as there are rumours that it is undetectable by radar—the British send ex-Vietnam War pilot, Mitchell Gant on a covert mission into the Soviet Union to steal the Firefox.

Photographing Fairies

1997

English

6.7

♡ 7

82%

74%

1920s

Action

based on novel or book

Nick Willing Director

Michael Culkin as Cole

Bernard Gallagher as Doctor at Vicarage

Clive Merrison as Gardner

Ben Kingsley as Reverend Templeton

Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photographer. Following the war and still in grief Charles is given some photographs purporting to be of fairies. His search for the truth leads him to Burkinwell, a seemingly peaceful village seething with secrets

Riddles of the Sphinx

1977

English

6.2

♡ 4

20%

avant-garde

Drama

woman director

Peter Wollen Director

Marie Green as Acrobat

Clive Merrison as Chris

Dinah Stabb as Louise

Laura Mulvey as Self

In this avant-garde classic, protagonist Louise deals with a change in her lifestyle in which she must learn to negotiate domestic life and motherhood.

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The Lady in the Van

Saving Grace

Firefox

Photographing Fairies

Riddles of the Sphinx